Thompson Hine LLP

Business Restructuring, Creditors' Rights & Bankruptcy; Corporate Transactions & Securities

Louis is a partner who focuses his practice on corporate transactions and commercial law with extensive experience in general corporate representation of publicly and privately held businesses including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; formation of corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships and joint ventures; bank and venture capital financing; Uniform Commercial Code; executive employment consulting and noncompetition agreements; license agreements; and service as corporate director and secretary.

Louis also has extensive experience in major Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases throughout the United States, workouts, other corporate reorganizations and creditors' rights including secured financing and letters of credit; commercial foreclosures; secured party sales and assignments for the benefit of creditors; rights of secured and unsecured creditors, landlords and equipment lessors in bankruptcy.

University of Cincinnati College of Law, J.D., 1976, 

executive editor, University of Cincinnati Law Review, 1975-1976

Wright State University, B.A., 1973, summa cum laude